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Selected Academic appointments:
• Assessor/Evaluator for the H2020 Programme, European Commission, 2014-Ongoing
• Evaluator for the National Institute for Health Research (NIHR), Ongoing
• Evaluator for the German Academic Exchange Service (DAAD), 2015
• Grant application referee for the Medical Research Council, 2011-2012, UK
• Grant application referee for the National Stroke Association, 2011-2013, UK
• Grant application referee for the British Council, INSPIRE programme, 2010, UK
• Associate Editor for the Rehabilitation and Assistive Technologies Engineering Journal (RATE)
• Invited Associate Editor for the Special Assistive Technologies Issue of the Paladyn Journal of Behavioral Robotics
• Referee for the Journal of Virtual Reality.
• Referee for the Journal of Applied Bionic & Biomechanics.
• Referee for the Journal of Medical & Biological Engineering & Computing.
• Referee for the Journal of Neuroengineering & Rehabilitation.
• Referee for the IEEE Transactions on Neural Systems & Rehabilitation Engineering.
• Referee for the IEEE Transactions on Robotics.
• Referee for the Journal of Interaction Studies.
• Referee for the Journal of Systems and Control Engineering (IMechE – Part I).
• Referee for the IEEE/ASME Transactions on Mechatronics.
• Referee for the IEEE Transactions on Haptics.

Organisation activities:
• Programme Chair of the IEEE RO-MAN2014 conference, Edinburgh, UK.
• Design and application of a personalised arm/hand training system for home use after stroke, In- ternational Neurorehabilitation Symposium (INRS2013), 11 Sep 2013, Zurich, Switzerland.
• Organised an event in support of Active Ageing Year 2012. More information about the event is found here.
• Organised a KT-Equal sponsored workshop titled ‘Robots supporting personal independence and rehabilitation‘. The workshop received more than 70 participants from Academia, Industries and end-users. More information about this workshop is found here.

Membership of Scientific Committees
• Reviewer for the IEEE/ASME Transactions on Mechatronics, 2011-2013
• Reviewer for the Journal of Interaction Studies, 2009-2013
• Reviewer for the Journal of Neuroengineering and Rehabilitation (JNER) 2007-2013
• Reviewer for the Journal of Systems and Control Engineering, 2011
• Reviewer for the Medical & Biological Engineering & Computing, Springer, 2009-2013
• Reviewer for the Journal of Applied Bionics and Biomechanics, 2010
• Reviewer for the IEEE Transaction on Robotics, 2009
• Reviewer for the Journal of Virtual Reality, 2009
• Reviewer for the IEEE Transactions on Neural Systems & Rehabilitation Engineering, 2009-2013
• Reviewer for the multiple conferences such as ICORR, IROS, EVAAL, RO-MAN, ICRA, ICIRA, 2001-2013

Awards:
• Winner of Vice Chancellor’s 2013 award for “Excellence in Research”
• Best Paper Award in the area of “Technologies Enhancing well-being for older people” at HSI2013, the 6th International Conference on Human System Interaction.